Calculate the total paid hours, and the weekly pay at $5.15 per hour, of the following workers (multiply pay by 1.5 for overtime hours).

Regular
Hours Overtime Hours Weekly Pay
Tim Carter, who worked 50 hours. 40 ? ?
Jesse Jones, who worked 47½ hours. 40 ? ?
Barbara Burns, who worked 44 hours. 40 ? ?

Question

Calculate the total paid hours, and the weekly pay at $5.15 per hour, of the following workers (multiply pay by 1.5 for overtime hours).

Regular
                                                                        Hours	           Overtime Hours	         Weekly Pay
Tim Carter, who worked 50 hours.	           40		                        ?                                 ?
Jesse Jones, who worked 47½ hours.	   40		                        ?                                 ?
Barbara Burns, who worked 44 hours.	   40                                ?                                  ?

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563blackghost · Answer

I'll show you on how to do the first one....

We know Tim Carter worked a total of `50 hours for the week` but he had only `40 regular hours` so we would multiply `40 by the weekly pay of $5.15 per hour` So...

$\huge{40 \times 5.15=$206}$

Now he worked `10 extra hours` that would mean we would multiply that by weekly pay and then multiply it by `1.5`....

$\huge{(5.15 \times 10)\times 1.5 = $77.25}$

Next you would add the sum of the two equations to find how much money he got for the week...

$\huge{$206+$77.25=$283.25}$